Family Group Sheet : Harry Ward Tatham / Marjorie Elsie Underhill (F0547)

• Male Harry Ward Tatham

  
  

  Birth	17 Jul 1911	Netley, Rosemead Place, Colombo
  Death	20 May 1980	15b Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells
  Burial
  Marriage	1936	Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo  [1, 2]
  Father	Territt Hugh Tatham | F0361 Family Group Sheet
  Mother	Maude Eglantine Waterfield Ward | F0361 Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Marjorie Elsie Underhill

  
  

  Birth	07 Nov 1910	Handsworth
  Death	Nov 1991	15b Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells
  Burial
  Father	William John Underhill | F1062 Family Group Sheet
  Mother	Marian Annie Hydon | F1062 Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Female + Living

  
  

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  Death
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  Spouse	Living | F1114
  Marriage
  Spouse	Paul George Wynn-Evans | F1115
  Marriage

  
  

  Male + Living

  
  

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  Spouse	Living | F1071
  Marriage

  
  

  Male + Living

  
  

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  Burial
  Spouse	Living | F0773
  Marriage

  
  

• Photos		Mackinnon House, Colombo Home of three generations of Tathams
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• Notes

  'I remember my father had 17 servants at Mackinnon House. An Appu who ran the servants and house. I still have the silver leaf on which he carried the mail to my mother each morning. My father had his personal dresser who laid out his clothes, ran his bath carefully testing the temperature of the water, squeezed the toothpaste on to his toothbrush, tied his shoe laces, helped him on with his jacket and brushed it. His dresser also waited at table. There was a house coolie who cleaned the house and waited at table. A varsocute cleaned all the loos and a nanny did the washing and ironing. There was a cook and podien (small boy helper who prepared everything for cooking and washed up). Four gardeners looked after the extensive grounds and two sisi boys (horse boys) tended the stables and groomed the horses. There was also a driver and all the servants lined up outside the front door each morning to watch the Master of the house climb into the back of the car to be driven to the office. It all sounds OTT now but thats how it was in those days. Father was called Master, Mother was Lady, my brother was Little Master and I was Missy.' [EJT, Oct 2010]

  
  

• Sources

  [S03] Family Members, RHT. [S03] Family Members, RWTT.